AN OPERATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY ROADMAP PREPARED BY: SMART PROCESS MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING VIRTUAL ORGANIZATION STEERING COMMITTEE NOVEMBER 2009 SMART PROCESS MANUFACTURING Acknow ledgment and Disclaimer "This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0742764." "Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation." © 2008 NSF Engineering Virtual Organization Jim Davis UCLA PI and Tom Edgar UT-Austin Co-PI. “SPM Operations & Technology Roadmap Full Report” is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. ABOUT THE REPORT This Executive Summary is the first installment of a series of report sections that, when brought together, will describe a framework for Smart Process Manufacturing and a consensus-based Operating and Technology Roadmap that reflects priority areas of attention and transition. The report reflects the consensus of a national cross-section of industry leaders involved with plan-ning the future of the process industry, vendors that supply technology solutions for manufactur-ing operations and academic researchers engaged in a range of associated systems research. The information forming the basis of this report was generated during a workshop held in April 2008 and a number of subsequent discussions. Details of the workshop results and the list of partici-pants can be found at: HTTP://WWW.OIT.UCLA.EDU/SMART_PROCESS_MANUFACTURING/ This report was compiled and written by an industry-academic team representing the full partici-pation at the workshop Jim Davis, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA Tom Edgar, Uni...
